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Email today spoke of athearn doing the el bicentennial sd45
> From: rdukarm_@_roadrunner.com
> To: wsmith5957_@_yahoo.com; erielack@lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) New Erie Book
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:50:39 -0400
>
> > Ya gotta look at it this way..........Mr. Adams was among the 'movers &
> > shakers' of his era & he had the inside dope on all of it (access).
> > I first ran across the book at SUNY Binghamton (Harpur College) which I
> > attended on the GI Bill and was punished for it by Sammy 'U missed a
> > call' Miller. >Alfred Runte, author of TRAINS OF DISCOVERY told me about
> > it & I got my own copy which I still have (& treasure).
> > Regards,
> > Walt Smith
>
> Walt & List,
>
> I have an original copy also. It's in like new condition. It only measures
> 4.5 in X 6.75 in. and is 152 pages. Copyright is 1869. It was one of the
> first Erie books I purchased and I really didn't know at the time what a
> great find it was.
>
> There was a short article in the NRHS Journal (I don't know the issue) which
> dealt with the book, entitled: "When Railroads Played Roughly" by Hugh R.
> Gibb.
>
> For those who are truly interested in this era of Erie history, there is
> another excellent book published on the subject by the Yale University Press
> in 1929. It's entitled: "High Finance in the Sixties", edited by Frederick
> C. Hicks. This is a compilation of the seven leading articles of the time
> about the Erie. Authors include: C. F. Adams Jr., Henry Adams, Albert
> Stickney, George Ticknor Curtis and Jeremiah S. Black. The book runs 410
> pages and has five illustrations of the leading characters of the time.
>
> Ron Dukarm
>
>
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